Herskovits F S (3 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Northwestern Press, Evanston, IL. 1970. 16, 490 pgs. Third Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. When this book was first published in 1958, Melville Herskovits, with his wife and collaborator, Frances, had spent over Twenty years studying the social networks, language, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World. Dahomey, the major site of their African work, is in the country now known as the Republic of Benin. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

291 pages of text containing 18 figures and 3 maps, plus 14 unnumbered pages of photographs, mostly of objects of material culture (A) -- 77 pages of text plus 6 unnumbered pages of photogrpahs (B). These two Memoires are bound together in the same volume in a later library cloth cover over the original wrappers.…